A facility and community-based assessment of scabies in rural Malawi.

Background: Scabies is a neglected tropical disease of the skin, causing severe itching, stigmatizing skin lesions and systemic complications. Since 2015, the DerMalawi project provide an integrated skin diseases clinics and Tele-dermatology care in Malawi. Clinic based data suggested a progressive increase in scabies cases observed.

Familial poikylodermic cutaneous amyloidosis.

Among the less common variants of primary cutaneous amyloidosis are both the poikylodermic and the familial types. The case of two sisters of thirteen and seventeen years old with extensive asymptomatic lesions with a poikylodermic aspect is reported. The girls' father was also affected and a paternal aunt had consulted at our department some years previously for similar lesions.